Chrome Extension Turns Malicious After Ownership Transfer, Enabling Code Injection and Data Theft

Two Google Chrome extensions have turned malicious after what appears to be a case of ownership transfer, offering attackers a way to push malware to downstream customers, inject arbitrary code, and harvest sensitive data.
The extensions in question, both originally associated with a developer named “akshayanuonline@gmail.com” (BuildMelon), are listed below –

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